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Friday, November 13, 2015

Friday Reads: ARC Review of The Prophecy Con by Patrick Weekes!!

Hello there guys!

Happy Friday! It is sort of a Monday for me, because I'm back to work after a few days off, but I'm feeling rather rejuvenated and rested! Also did some retail therapy on IKEA, in the shape of new shelves, so things are looking up!

For this week's Friday Reads I have the second book in what seems to be a trilogy (at least for now) heist fantasy series (I think this should be its own genre) that is becoming a quick favourite for me! So glad to have listened to Jessica from Rabid Reads and have started this series!

I was so excited to be approved on NetGalley to read all the books in the Rogues of the Republic series so far, and The Prophecy Con didn't disappoint at all!

It starts pretty soon after the ending of The Palace Job, and we see our characters back in the thick of the action, at least Loch and Kail, because after the events of the previous book the diplomatic relationships between Empire and Republic are quite tense. We learn about the changes (Loch as a Justicar) and we see how everyone is dealing with the aftermath of their saving the world, Dairy and Desidora the ones with more issues finding their way after the extraordinary.

The action and the humour in this one are non-stop and perfectly mixed as it was in the first book. I found myself laughing out loud as well as cackling and simply howling with laughter at some points... what can I say, I simply look the humour in this books, it can be subtle, it can be cheeky... and I love it!

And the action... we start with a diplomatic mission that ends up with a battle, Loch getting a new weapon from her foe and starting a new mission to recover/steal a precious artifact, this time in the name of peace and not personal revenge. And this time is not so much a heist but an ongoing mission about stealing/recovering/winning the damned artifact and discovering what else is threatening the precarious peace between the Empire & the Republic.

As the action moves around quite a bit we get to see much more world building and we meet dwarves and elves. These are and aren't the dwarves and elves we've met before. Their societies are similar enough to what we've seen before, but I feel that the author gave them his own unique twist.

The relationships between the characters have shifted a bit, and some of them are paired up, and their interactions can be both a moment of relief from the action as well as some added gravitas, depending on which relationship. I'm quite more partial to one of them two established ones, but the other two just won me over in the end even if their chemistry is not so obvious or maybe well developed.

As a sequel it expands and builds upon what we knew from book 1, but also manages to give a twist to what we thought we knew and add a betrayal to make things even more interesting and unexpected!

The ending was rather horrible and I was ready to scream at my Kindle in rage, but luckily the author decided to take pity on us poor readers and added a epilogue to make sure we didn't end up hating him!

I'm now thoroughly in love with this series and these characters and will say that if you like fantasy books with humour, diversity and twisty action, you NEED to check them out! Very well deserved 4 to 4.5 stars!

12 comments:

Why isn't this series ringing any bells for me Pili? Sounds like something I would thoroughly enjoy! Thank goodness for that epilogue though or I'd be too scared to try this series. I don't like it when an author makes me hate them for being so cruel ;-)

I think you really need to give these a try Jenny! I discovered them thanks to Jessica from Rabid Reads, otherwise I would have totally missed them! I hope you'll check them out (and they're cliffhanger free!!) ;)

Aw, yay :D So glad you are enjoying this series a lot Pili. <3 Gorgeous review, as always :) Sounds like an exciting book. But not for me :D And aw, I'm sorry you have to work again. Ugh. I would not be able to work at all, lol. You are amazing :) And yay for buying stuff :D That is always awesome. Hope you'll have a great weekend sweetie. <3

After Six of crows, I am sooooon eeding more fantasies with heists! Your review came at the perfect time, my sweet :D :D :D I'll try requesting them on NG if they're still there; if not, to Amazon it is!

The next book after this one is already out, and the epilogue kinda negates the awful cliffhanger too, thankfully!But it's a very cool fantasy series that might end up being a Pili Pushed book at some point! ;)